Help With English Writing and Grammar

 

 

• Planning the Paper (Purdue Online Writing Lab)
• Choosing a Subject (Paradigm)
• Hot Paper Topics (St. Ambrose University)
• Building the Draft (Empire State College)
• Making an Outline (Purdue Online Writing Lab)
• Sample Outline (Purdue Online Writing Lab)
• Overcoming Writer's Block (Purdue Online Writing Lab)

Writing Sentences & Paragraphs

• Sentence Sense Great! (Capital Community College)
• Writing Clear Sentences (University of Victoria)
• Common Sentence Grammar Errors and how to fix them (comma splice, run-on, parallelism, etc.). (University of Victoria)
• Sentence Construction and Sentence Errors (Purdue Online Writing Lab)
• Ways to Structure Sentences (Empire State College)
• Sentence Types (University of Victoria)

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• Developing &Ordering Paragraphs (University of Victoria)
• The Paragraph (Purdue Online Writing Lab)
• Transition Words (Purdue Online Writing Lab)

• Principles of Composition Great! Choose "Patterns of Composition" types of essays, samples of essays, etc. (Guide to Grammar & Writing)
• Essay Writing Workshop Great! (Empire State College)
• Essays Types of essays, writing, organizing, etc. (University of Victoria)
• Writing Description (Purdue Online Writing Lab)
• Argument/Persuasion and Logic (Purdue Online Writing Lab)
• Writing a Summary (University of Victoria)
• Suggestions for Writing Summaries (Empire State College)
• Key Terms in College Writing (What to do when your essay is supposed to: React, Interpret, Analyze, Synthesize, Summarize, Define, Describe, etc)
• Types of Essays  Essay, book review, review of literature, synthesis, thesis-support. (Empire State College)
• Writing Essay Exams (Purdue Online Writing Lab)

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• Thesis or Question (Purdue Online Writing Lab)
• Thesis Characteristics (Empire State College)
• What is a Thesis? (Empire State College)
• The Thesis Statement (Capital Community College)
• The Thesis (University of Victoria)
• How to Write the Thesis (University of Victoria)

• Bedford Researcher Links (Bedford-St.Martin's) Recommends links for writing
• Research Paper Workshop Great! (Purdue Online Writing Lab)
• Research Papers (Purdue Online Writing Lab)
• Writing a Research Paper (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
• Writing a Research Paper Excellent! (Empire State College)
• Guide for Writing Research Papers This site has everything - use the menu at the left. (Capital Community College)

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• LitLinks (Bedford St.Martin's) Links to reliable sites for 600 authors
• Literary and Rhetorical Terms by Category (Unviersity of Victoria)
• Bedfore Researcher Literature Links Links to authors!! (Bedford St. Martin's)
• Writing About Literature (Purdue Online Writing Lab)
• Suggestions for Writing about Literature (Guide to Grammar & Writing-Capital Community College)
• Writing About Fiction (Purdue Online Writing Lab)
• Literary Resources on the Net (Rutgers-Jack Lynch)
• Project Gutenberg Read Many Literature Works Online!
• Online Books Page (University of Pennsylvania)
• The English Server Many links to online literature and other works (Iowa State University)

• The Basics of Grammar Great review! (University of Victoria)
• Grammar Exercises Great! (Purdue Online Writing Lab)
• Guide to Grammar and Style (Jack Lynch)
• Verb Tense all you need to know! (Englishpage.com)
• Summary of Verb Tenses (St. Cloud State University)
• Spelling (Purdue Online Writing Lab)
• Spelling Rules and Suggestions (Guide to Grammar and Writing)
• Punctuation Assistance (Purdue Online Writing Lab)

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• Interactive Grammar Quizzes Excellent! (Guide to Grammar & Writing)
• Exercise Central Many exercises on countless grammar topics. Don't worry about writing your instructor's correct e-mail, just guess. (Bedford St. Martin's)
• Online Grammar Quizzes Focused for non-native speakers (Internet TESL Journal)

• Editing/Proofreading for Writers (Temple University)
• Editing and Proofreading Strategies (Purdue University Online Writing Lab)
• Proofreading Your Paper (Purdue Online Writing Lab)
• The Editing Process (Paradigm)
• Online References with contents Strunk's Elements of Style, American Heritage Guide to Usage (Bartleby.com)
• Model Documents What is a humanities paper supposed to look like? What about a science paper? (Bedford St. Martin's)

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• Top Links Recommends links for your paper. (Bedford-St.Martin's)
• Writing Links Library (Bedford-St. Martin's)
• Research-it! (iTools)
• Internet Search Tools (Purdue University)
• Research and Documentation Online Writing a paper for social science, humanities, history, or science? Help is here. (Hacker-Bedford St. Martin's)
• English Research Room Lots of research links and advice (Bedford St. Martin's)
• Google (search engine)
• Dogpile (search engine)
• Webcrawler (search engine)
• Yahoo (search engine)

• Research Reference (Purdue Online Writing Lab)
• American Heritage Dictionary (yourdictionary.com)
• Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary and Thesaurus
• Highbeam Encyclopedia
• Encyclopedia Britannica Online
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• Evaluating Online Sources Tutorial (Bedford St. Martin's)

• Search the Mission College Library Catalog
• Library Database Links (Encyclopedias, Galenet Literature, Mercury Center)

Documenting Sources & Avoiding Plagiarism

• Research and Documentation Online (Diana Hacker)
• Using MLA Format (Purdue Online Writing Lab)
• MLA Citation Game (University of Washington)
• Documenting Electronic Sources (Purdue Online Writing Lab)
• What to Document (Paradigm)
• How to Document (Paradigm)

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• Avoiding Plagiarism Tutorial (Bedford St. Martin's)
• Plagiarism 101 Tutorial (State University of New York, Albany)
• Definitions of plagiarism (University of Alberta)
• Plagiarism: What it is and how to avoid it (Indiana University)
• Plagiarism and Examples (Capital Community College)
• Avoiding Plagiarism (Purdue Online Writing Lab)

Additional Resources

• ESL Study Materials (Purdue Online Writing Lab)
• Writing Resources for English Language Learners (Ohio University)
• ESL Help (Hacker, A Writer's Reference)
• Non-Native Students Links (St. Cloud State University)
• ESL Resources (Purdue Online Writing Lab)
• When to use Articles a, an, the (St. Cloud State University)
• Mission College ESL Lab Activities

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• A Writer's Reference (Diana Hacker)
• Bedford St. Martin's Re: Writing
• Guide to Grammar and Writing (Darling--Capital Community Tech. College)
• Online Writing Lab Grammar & Writing Handouts (Purdue)
• Writing Resource Center (Empire State College)
• Writer's Complex (Empire State College)
• Literacy Education Online (St. Cloud State University)